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This song was written by Ewan MacColl, and there are versions by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Christy Moore, and various others.
Born in the middle of the afternoon
In a horse drawn wagon on the old A5
The big twelve wheeler shook my bed
'You can't stop here,' the policeman said,
'You'd better get born in someplace else
Chorus
Move along, get along, move along, get along
Go, move, shift!'
Born at the back of a building site
Where the ground was rutted by the trailer's wheels
The local people said to me,
'You'll lower the price of property
You'd better get born in someplace else
Chorus
Born at the tattie lifting time
In an old bow tent in a tattie field
The farmer said, 'Your work's all done
It's time that you were moving on
You'd better get born in someplace else
Chorus
The winter sky was hung with stars
And one shone brighter than all the rest
No Eastern kings came bearing gifts
Instead the order came to shift
'You'd better get born in someplace else
Chorus
Born at the back of a hawthorn hedge
When a cold hoare-frost lay all around
The wise men came so stern and strict
And brought the order to evict
'You'd better get born in someplace else
Chorus
Waggon train or trailer born
Last year, last week or in far off days
Born here or a thousand miles away
There's always men nearby who'll say
'You'd better get born in someplace else
Chorus
Lyrics of this song
http://www.metrolyrics.com/moving-on-song-lyrics-seeger-peggy.html
http://martindardis.com/go_move_shift_lyrics_chords_christy_moore.html
http://www.fiona-obscura.de/lyrics/born_in_the_middle.html
http://www.dickgaughan.co.uk/songs/texts/moveon.html
Recordings of this song
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